Richmond Scholars

nysmile
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:11:53 +0000

“That money would seem to have to trickle down, right?”

I don’t think it works that way. Colleges always make their merit offers with the knowledge that some will choose not to attend. In other words, if someone is offered merit money and chooses not to attend, the merit money isn’t necessarily put back into the pot to re-distribute.